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# Hold The Horde — Cast And Short Rescue Map

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This page maps the SMALL-band cast: five working people and fifteen uniquely owned scenes. The rules for the astronaut's carried property do not apply to people. Owner decisions are recorded in the [Owner Brief](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Brief).

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## Shared short-rescue boundary

Every rescue below is offered only after the astronaut has personally walked the exact route from the ship airlock to the refuge threshold **in the current arrangement and life**, checked its controls, and established that it is short: airlock corridor, at most one exposed junction, one airlock-side abort vestibule and the refuge door. A persistent ship-rooted group may make a later refuge eligible, but a bearing, old breadcrumb or language clue never does. If this geometry is absent after a shift, the scene waits; it does not grow into an escort or assume a favorable next arrangement.

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Before movement, the named travel-air handover and present abort refuge must be visibly prepared, and, under the death-during-transfer safeguard (pending owner decision), three further conditions must hold: the handed-over canister reads at or above that route's **full-attempt return mark** — outward attempt plus the longest return from any committed segment, including cycling back out of an unclosed ship airlock — a retreat line is **armed** that the survivor can operate with no astronaut input, and a local closure tell exists at the named refuge. **A quiet encounter is necessary but not sufficient:** quieting the room arms nothing by itself, and a scene lacking any of these is not eligible to begin. The survivor confirms flow, moves under their own power, operates their side of the route and may call an ordinary abort. The astronaut holds one ordinary-horde crossing, operates outside controls and may also abort. **Sent** commits only when that same person is physically aboard and the ship airlock closes. A radio promise, crossing in progress or astronaut death is not delivery.

52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
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An ordinary abort uses the scene's named reachable refuge and leaves the person unsent. Death during transfer has a safeguard, described in [Death Shift and Rescue Continuity](/Hold%20The%20Flood/Death%20Shift%20And%20Rescue%20Continuity) and pending owner decision: preserve the last confirmed survivor state and committed object states, return only the astronaut's still-carried property, and — where the line was armed — the survivor runs it inside a limited window in which creatures and hazards cannot act on or block them, reaching the named counted abort refuge alive and unsent before the shift. The old route becomes historical. **What the astronaut knows is unchanged:** the closure tell is local to that refuge's control, nothing is transmitted aboard, and the present outcome stays unconfirmed until the player observes that refuge again in person. If the safeguard is not selected, or was not armed, the outcome stays unresolved rather than delivery or loss.

52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
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Committed canisters, installed parts and completed panel/door stages stay in their actual locations. Capture, setup, rescue and work continue while the game runs, with oxygen and threats; opening the journal fully pauses and cannot advance any of them.

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Each rescue uses the same visible state vocabulary: **waiting** means the person remains in the named intact refuge; **prepared** means travel air, abort place and current route have been checked but nobody has crossed; **in transfer** begins when the refuge door opens for movement; **at abort refuge** means the person is in the named counted refuge or vestibule — reached by an ordinary witnessed return, or by the armed retreat under the pending safeguard; and **Sent** means the ship closure test above passed. Waiting and prepared may be revisited after leaving the region, but a shifted route must be checked again. An interrupted capture or mechanical stage retains only visibly completed substeps; it never grants the next scene. Ordinary horde pressure can force the player to spend air, operate the abort control or retreat, but cannot silently move the survivor, finish a door cycle or convert an abort into Sent. This vocabulary is deliberately narrower than a full survivor simulation, to keep scene writing clear.

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## R-3 is one encounter, not two occupants

R-3 has one occupant flag in a continuity. If **Yeva** is selected first, scene Y1 uses R-3 and Aster's A1 later uses an objective-7 supply booth. If **Aster** is selected first, A1 uses R-3 and Y1 later uses an objective-6 pressure annex. The unused R-3 version is absent, not a second person waiting in the same ward. The later booth/annex versions preserve each person's core rescue choice but require their own short current-route check. If that variant host cannot be placed inside the existing objective/room ledger, the cast map must change rather than invent a free room.

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## Five people and arcs

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| Person / voice through behavior | Want and real disagreement | Witnessed versus inferred | Rescue distinction | Home contribution and arc change |

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| **Yeva Kolb — pressure technician** | Wants the ward pressure record to outlive her because she fears her value is only what she remembers. She will leave, but disputes abandoning the record for speed. | Personally measured named fittings at dated times and saw the core team return changed. She does not know current routes, either alien language, why treatment changed or whether changed means ruined. | During one short crossing, spend exposed time while the game runs capturing the wall record, or refuse and move now. | Explicitly installs/routes the packing bench; prepared cycles still require Dorn's completed service and the later demonstrated cycle. Harmful-profile evidence changes her from blaming “the core” generally to targeting one human-configured line, without settling Dorn's identity or the core's innocence. |

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| **Aster Fen — supply clerk** | Wants the personnel door locked behind her because she thinks arrivals disturb the station. She comes either way, but disputes leaving the route open. | Counted stores and recorded shipments. She has seen shifts follow crises, not their cause; her ledger gives historical movements, never present contents or passenger identity. | After she is Sent, lock one reversible corridor door at its outside panel or refuse. The other ward threshold remains; no whole ward becomes permanently inaccessible. | Commissions the ledger comparison table with her physical ledger and provenance fields. The berth trace narrows “all arrivals cause shifts” to “this docking may,” while a late-transfer result makes her admit that a shipment entry is not a passenger list. |

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| **Dorn — maintenance worker** | Wants to leave without reopening the boundary he sealed. The astronaut may choose the shorter direct hoist and override him or hand-cycle a still-short side door. | Serviced one pressure panel, painted his own route marks and heard a late transfer cycle. He did not see who crossed and cannot infer current plumbing, population or route. | First verify the one-junction side route while his boundary stays closed. Either use it, or commit opening the direct hoist with a compatible control trigger carried by the Fork Relay (the splitter), then personally walk and verify that direct route before Dorn moves. The fixed hoist supplies power and motion. | Commissions the one-channel receiver and physically services the inherited bench compressor/housing; the full bench still needs Yeva's installation/routing and a demonstrated cycle. The late-transfer counter lets him replace a denial of movement with the narrower truth that he heard a cycle and sealed afterward. |

| **Mara Venn — sterile-processing/reclamation worker** | Wants a contaminated culture rack purged before she leaves; the astronaut may instead lock it behind a visible isolation seal to preserve evidence. She will not pretend preservation is harmless. | Saw processing batches change after particular machine cycles. She can identify handling and contamination boundaries, not the alien cause, every creature or a safe current route. | Purge the station-held rack, consuming those samples, or complete the reusable isolation seal and leave them placed; then hold one decontamination crossing while she cycles the inner air curtain. This rack is not the controlled comparison input. | Commissions the material-response tray and protected-item refusal without consuming salvage. The active/bypassed profile comparison changes her from “the samples carry it” to “this machine can write it,” while a post-isolation-only result leaves the earlier cause unknown. |

| **Ivo Hale — rehabilitation worker** | Wants to control when he moves; he disputes being treated as cargo or having an automatic carrier decide his crossing. | Observed patients' voluntary steps and machine-carried motion in his bay. He knows that fixture's response and people's expressed consent, not alien intent, universal physiology or treatment safety. | Leave Stride in the approach gait plate: after Ivo gives a visible ready signal, the astronaut deliberately traverses its marked grounded distance to trigger the lamps. Or reclaim it and let Ivo use a fixed manual cue. Either way Ivo chooses the moment and walks the route himself. | Repairs/commissions the home gait rail; later solo tests require the astronaut's two actual passes. Voluntary-treatment evidence makes him insist on preview, refusal and purge, while respecting any informed choice without withdrawing help. |

52d1ab	Anonymous	2026-09-08 20:53:32
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These contributions are person-dependent and do not gate the physical main path. Equipment acquisition/configuration, ordinary refill, both alien-language tests, pressure controls, station connection and the endings retain their no-survivor alternatives. An absent or non-participating person supplies no testimony, conversation or commissioning act; a completed fixture supports only the solo operations already assigned in Home And Colony Loop.

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## Fifteen-scene ledger

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Each ID is one scene with one primary owner; other people are participants or branch variants. “Defer” preserves the scene without decay or relationship penalty.

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| ID / host, participants and required evidence | Visible choice and action | Consequence, revisit and interruption boundary |

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| **Y1 — The wall must come.** Obj. 4 R-3 if Yeva-first; otherwise the obj. 6 pressure annex. Astronaut + Yeva; visible wall log, confirmed travel air and current short route. | Photograph the log, exposed, while the game runs, or refuse and signal movement. Yeva confirms flow, cycles her intact refuge door and crosses while the astronaut holds one junction. | Capture persists with place/life; refusal leaves the wall record revisitable. Ordinary abort returns her to the intact ward/annex. Death mid-crossing follows the shared boundary above. Sent waits for closed ship airlock. |

| **Y2 — The dark bench.** Ship; Yeva primary. Requires Y1 Sent and the bench's inherited ship compressor head/housing; no Dorn required to begin her contribution. This is existing ship gear. | Greet or postpone; show/withhold the wall record; help seat the inherited head and route ship supply while the game runs. | Yeva's installation persists, but the bench remains **setup incomplete** until Dorn physically services the compressor/housing and both are followed by a demonstrated cycle. Either person may perform their contribution first. Ordinary refill/repack remain. No unseen completion while either person is absent. |

| **Y3 — The profile is not the person.** Ship after a committed active/bypass or post-isolation culture record; Yeva primary, Dorn only if present and shown it. | Share either record, ask her to support isolation, challenge her “core” attribution or defer. | With the full comparison she targets the human-configured line; with only post-isolation results she admits the prior cause is unknown. Dorn may dispute “change equals damage.” No present participant, no testimony; notes are not corrected automatically. |

| **A1 — Lock behind me.** Obj. 4 R-3 if Aster-first; otherwise obj. 7 supply booth. Astronaut + Aster; current short route and flow confirmed. | Complete the crossing, then after Sent lock the named personnel door or refuse. Aster operates the inner door and may abort. | Lock is reversible at the same reachable panel and closes one current convenience, not the other threshold or objective. Abort returns her to the intact refuge. Death during transfer follows the shared boundary above. |

| **A2 — Count only what we have.** Ship ledger table; Aster primary. Requires A1 Sent and her physical ledger. | Commission the table by registering one dated entry and provenance fields; choose records to align, or postpone. | Setup/registered entries persist. Later solo comparisons use only registered material; new recollection needs Aster. The overlay never reveals present contents or route, and no journal note is written for the player. |

| **A3 — This docking, perhaps.** Ship berth/table; Aster primary. Requires committed berth trace and one post-death manifest/world-state comparison. | Show both, show one, or defer; ask whether every crossing still fits her theory. | With both she retracts “every arrival” and retains “this docking may.” With one she keeps the wider theory. Wariness changes what she says, not access, help or friendship points. Absent Aster contributes nothing. |

| **D1 — Keep the section shut?** Obj. 6 sealed receiving section; Dorn primary. Requires damaged-lock sleeve, travel canister, stocked airlock-side vestibule and the one-junction side route walked this life while the sealed direct boundary remains untouched. | Use the verified side door; or install Fork in the direct hoist's compatible control seat and commit opening the boundary. The fixed hoist supply/control provides power and motion; Fork passes the trigger. Opening is preparation, not a rescue offer: afterward the astronaut must personally traverse/check the direct route before signaling Dorn. | A verified side departure uses its checkpoints. A direct opening persists even if the newly exposed route proves too long, blocked or unsafe; in that case rescue remains waiting until an actually walked short route exists. If it passes, Dorn operates inside controls and both routes converge on the same present abort vestibule, not a refuge chain. Fork stays installed until reclaimed. Original room vents on departure. Death or shift versus abort ordering follows the shared boundary above, under the pending safeguard. |

| **D2 — Two leads, one Fork.** Ship receiver/bench; Dorn primary, Yeva cross-link if present. Requires D1 Sent. | Dorn commissions the fixed one-channel receiver and physically inspects/services the inherited compressor head and bench housing already aboard. This work can persist before Yeva routes the supply. If her installation is complete, run receiver → reclaim Fork → demonstrated bench cycle → reclaim; otherwise perform receiver/service only or postpone. | Receiver address, completed physical service and Yeva's separate installation retain distinct visible states. No prepared canister exists until both contributions are complete and the player performs the cycle. This scene is the shared Coming Home interaction. General later solo use follows Home And Colony Loop. |

| **D3 — What crossed.** Ship ledger table/receiver; Dorn primary, Yeva/Aster cross-links only if present. Requires wall/destination pressure-cycle records. | Share with all present, one person, or nobody. Ask what each actually witnessed. | Dorn replaces “nobody crossed” with “I heard a cycle, then sealed”; Yeva may retract only the falsification accusation; Aster limits her ledger. Recipient remains unknown. Each absent person has no variant. Deferred evidence triggers nothing unseen. |

| **M1 — Clean side.** Obj. 8 decontamination booth; Mara primary. Requires travel air, current one-junction route and clean abort vestibule. Its local expendable rack is distinct from the controlled comparison's two equivalent living culture patches and from any later M2 salvage sample. | Purge this station-held rack, visibly consuming only its contents, or close its reusable isolation seal and preserve it in place; then cue Mara's inner air curtain and hold the junction. | Purged rack contents stay consumed; sealed contents remain placed and may support only a later use if reachable. Neither branch grants, removes or gates the controlled comparison inputs, reconstructs a missed profile record, guarantees recovery or supplies M2. Mara crosses under her own power. Ordinary abort returns her to the clean vestibule; death mid-crossing follows the shared boundary above. |

| **M2 — Catch, don't spend.** Ship material tray; Mara primary. Requires M1 Sent and empty fixed cradle. | Help fit shields and visible protected-item refusal; commission without inserting Cycler or salvage. Later loan/test or postpone separately. | Fixture setup persists. No sample is consumed until the player explicitly selects and commits a Cycler activation. Solo operation is then allowed; Mara's comparison/account still requires her participation. |

| **M3 — A machine made this.** Ship tray/evidence shelf; Mara primary. Requires a committed culture-profile capture. | Preserve the completed trace, share it, or isolate first and accept that the pre-isolation comparison may be missing. | Full comparison changes her causal belief toward the machine profile. Two post-isolation non-anomalous results establish only current disconnection. Isolation removes a live signal, never the captured record; reopening remains explicit and access-conditional. |

| **I1 — My pace.** Obj. 2 rehab/calibration bay; Ivo primary. Requires travel air, current short route and braced airlock-side alcove. | Leave Stride in the approach plate; when Ivo visibly signals ready, the astronaut performs the established deliberate grounded traversal and its trigger cues the lamps. Or reclaim Stride and let Ivo press the bay's fixed manual cue before walking. Astronaut holds the single junction. | Stride's observed eligible subject remains the astronaut; Ivo controls when the crossing begins and moves under his own power. Installed/reclaimed state is exact, with no extra part or capacity cost. Neither branch grants rescue or acquisition automatically. Ordinary abort reaches the braced alcove; death mid-crossing follows the shared boundary above. |

| **I2 — Two actual passes.** Ship gait rail; Ivo primary. Requires I1 Sent. | Repair/commission rail together or postpone. After commissioning, the astronaut may walk one voluntary pass and stand on the moving carrier for the second. | Fixture setup persists; trace records only performed astronaut tests, never a rolling-weight substitute. Player may later operate solo and reclaim Stride. No passive training/stat benefit appears. |

| **I3 — Ask before treatment.** Ship before treatment or after a return; Ivo primary. Requires the treatment's recorded access benefit, hostile correction cue and purge evidence. | Discuss then accept, refuse, defer or later purge. If treatment happened before Ivo arrived, show/withhold the actual record; he cannot retroactively warn. | His response distinguishes informed choice from hidden exposure. All options retain his help and main progression. Treatment/purge state persists; conversation neither applies nor removes it. |

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## Three dependency schedules

**Yeva first.** Objective 1 opens the R-3 bearing; a later current short geometry enables Y1 at objective 4. Y2 makes the pressure record and incomplete bench visible immediately, while ordinary refill/rig work stays useful. Objectives 5/6 can proceed without Yeva's testimony. Dorn's D1/D2 later completes the bench/receiver; Aster enters once her objective-7 booth gets a verified short route. Yeva's early road names remain attributed help, never translation.

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**Aster first.** A1 occupies R-3 and A2 gives a first-return record comparison without any other project appearing. A3 can narrow her shift belief after an ordinary death. Yeva later occupies the objective-6 pressure annex, never R-3; she may complete Y2's installation before or after Dorn physically services the inherited bench gear, but prepared cycles wait for both contributions and a demonstrated cycle. All physical language, pressure and equipment paths remain available before either joins.

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**Deeper mechanisms before the cast.** The investigator defers objective 4 until a valid short route, completes builder/visitor tests and reaches objective 11 by physical alternatives. They may capture the live harmful-profile feed, leave isolation open, or re-seat it before any rescue. Completed captures survive; missing pre-isolation evidence is not reconstructed, and a later post-isolation test has only the limited result M3 describes. Reopening is explicit but depends on reaching the control again. Later people respond only to records shown after they arrive; none supplies an unseen prior conversation. Objective 12's physical all-room construction remains independent of gathering the cast, intervention or diagnostics.

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These schedules overlay the two Regional orders rather than replacing them. A shift can defer any rescue host, while completed objective work, joins, records and object locations retain their owning states.

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## Strongest case and costs

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**Strongest case.** Keep all five working people. Their rescue choices concern record versus exposure, reversible closure, boundary versus part use, purge versus preserved evidence and autonomy versus automation. Their home work changes preparation without becoming upkeep, and later evidence changes a specific belief or relationship rather than awarding generic loyalty.

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**Costs.** Five short rescues still require five route/abort/ordinary-horde integrations and survivor behavior; mutually exclusive first-survivor hosting adds real branch work; D2 and D3 need careful shared-scene accounting; optional testimony increases knowledge-state variants; and “one junction” may feel contrived if the shifting layout rarely produces credible geometry.

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**Strongest smaller cut.** Select Yeva as first survivor, remove the Aster-first R-3 branch and Yeva-later annex variant, and keep Aster's later objective-7 rescue. The five people, fifteen scene identities and every main system remain. The lost experience is substantive: the opening can no longer begin with distrust of the astronaut's arrival, the owner loses the strongest alternate first-person tone, and Aster's berth theory is encountered only after the player already knows another survivor.

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## Open questions

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- Yeva versus Aster as R-3's first survivor.

- The global order and outcome when astronaut death intersects a transfer and a death-triggered shift. The mid-crossing safeguard in Death Shift and Rescue Continuity is pending owner decision; this map recommends neither automatic safety nor loss.

- Whether, and how, a person already Sent can later die.

- Final names and cast, exact geometry, dialogue, content placement and the story/core branch.

- Actual layout and the full dialogue and state permutations are not yet written.

- Later ledger must allocate four non-R-3 refuge/abort fixtures and both mutually exclusive non-first host variants; if they do not fit, record an increment or revise.

- These rules are untested; numbers are proposals.